Dancing Ashkenazis

Beit Avi Chai presents “Dancing Ashkenazis–An authentic Ashkenazi dance workshop”: Self-expression and tradition in a unique, challenging workshop.

A special opportunity to learn the special genre of Jewish dance that evolved in Eastern Europe.Ashkenazi dance includes dances for individual, pairs, and groups.

Instructor: Prof. Walter Zev Feldman, a scholar of music and one of the few experts on the authentic dancing of Ashkenazi Jewry.

The workshop will be accompanied by a musical ensemble.

In view of the success of the previous workshops, there will be two dance workshops: one for beginners and one for advanced students.

For dancers, lovers of dance, and everyone interested in Ashkenazi culture

At each session Prof. Feldman will deliver a lecture illuminating another angle of Ashkenazi dance. The lectures will include films and other means of illustration and is meant for both the beginners’ and advanced groups.